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Intensive   /ɪntˈɛnsɪv/   Listen
Intensive

adjective
1.
Characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form.  "Intensive care" , "Research-intensive" , "A labor-intensive industry"
2.
Tending to give force or emphasis.
3.
Of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor.  "Intensive conditions"
noun
1.
A modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies.  Synonym: intensifier.  "'honestly' in 'I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"



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... was," said Porky. "Night and day was all alike down there, but there was one big yellow-haired fellow that ran the engine. He had been ordered to show me about it; and, say, I will say I can run a submarine now. It was what you call intensive training. When I was slow, he gave me a clip on the head. He could just do anything with machinery. But they certainly have got that submarine engine perfected so it will do everything but talk. Any child could run it as soon ...
— The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine
... the soil, the typhoid-carrying waters that seep through and into the trenches, the tetanus and gangrene that may infect the simplest wounds, are due to the long intensive cultivation of that fertile country, to the fertilisation by organic matter of its fields. Doubtless the vermin that cover many of the troops form the connecting link between the soil and the infected men. In many places ...
— Kings, Queens And Pawns - An American Woman at the Front • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... dealings are with middlemen; and extensive culture is practiced. For the local market: the acreage may be small; the market must be near and prices must be high; the sales are direct to the consumer; there must be succession in ripening; and intensive culture is practiced. For the general market, the vineyard is the unit; for the local market, the variety should be the unit. In this discussion, however, "large acreage" and "extensive culture" set against "small ...
— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick
... circumnavigated, and it may be interesting to compare the records of whales seen in the region outside and to the south of this area with the records and the percentage of each species captured in the intensive fishing area. ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
... always flowed. The best reason of all, the reason that affects me most finally, is that if we left the rest of the world alone we might have some time for attending to our own affairs, which are urgent to the point of excruciation. All history points to this; that intensive cultivation in the long run triumphs over the widest extensive cultivation; or, in other words, that making one's own field superior is far more effective than reducing other people's fields to inferiority. If you cultivate your own garden and grow a specially large cabbage, ...
— Alarms and Discursions • G. K. Chesterton


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